Sketch a day 001

 Traditional Cornish Unit - A4 - Pen and Watercolour Wash

Well what a horrid 24hrs

After settling down to do my very first sketch for my challenge sketch a day yesterday, there was a blood curdling scream and the upshot of that was me racing towards A&E (ER if your American) with my 7yr old daughter Bethany who has broken her arm in two places jumping around on her friends tramoline. 6hrs later two very tired people arrived home 4am one in plaster and the other wanting to get plastered.....

I have hospital Thursday with her to see if they shall operate.

I did manage my first sketch though which is only a simple view near to our house, it was all I could muster considering the chaos

Sketch a day

While I am a budding artist and I am in my comfort zone with paint and canvas, drawing has to be my weakness. I find it extremely hard to make marks on paper that I am happy with so I void it like the plague. Most people think that all professional artists are acomplished in drawing and sketching but this is just not so. There are so many ways to cheat the drawing process and get on with the painting that its easy to fool the uninitiated with graphite paper, tracedown, camera lucida, photographs and the grid technique.

So.................

I am plucking up the courage to better my drawing and sketching skills and one way I have though about this is to embark on a sketch a day programme. Taking out my sketch book everyday, drawing or sketching something and then posting the result on here for all to see.......

I am chewing my finger nails in fear and anxiety just writing about doing this....

okay deep breaths............ wish me luck

Check back regular for my sketch a day and my thoughts on the process' involved, for good or for bad I am going to do this

Turner Acryl Gouache

After seeing a demonstration of acryl gouache by Turner on youtube I was compelled to give them a try. I'm not a watercolourist by any stretch of the imagination and whilst I sometimes play with them from time to time I tend to stick with Oils and Acrylics. I am eagerly awaiting my trial pack which is currently out of stock damn it lol

Anyways I shall post the results once I get the chance to try them out.

If you want to know where you can buy these paints then click the link Turner Acryl Gouache

This is my daughters Art please check it out she is 16

This is just one picture from my daughters art portfolio she is starting a course in Photography September at Plymouth College of Art, please check out her work and leave her a comment.

Photo references that I may develop into Paintings

Still Life & Mythological Oil Paintings by Sandra Yagi

Still Life & Mythological Oil Paintings by Sandra Yagi

- Lori McNee Artist

http://www.finearttips.com/2009/11/palette-tips-%E2%80%93-organize-your-paints/

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Winsor and Newton Artists Oil Colour Bamboo Box, Art Supplies and Art materials, SAA

Winsor and Newton Artists Oil Colour Bamboo Box, Art Supplies and Art materials, SAA

These are the paints I use in many of my paintings and this is a fantastic set for starting out in oils. Always use the best you can afford, and using artist quality paint as a beginner will increase your confidence with the medium as the vibrancy in artist oils is so much brighter, and you will use less!

Artists Helping Artists: Branding and Growing Your Art Business

I came across this blog today while looking for other blogs with the same keywords as mine. This is just one particular post of many on the site which focus on blog radio talks geared to helping artists. I suggest you take a look because even though it is American based we can all adapt the advise to suit our own countries.

Enjoy :-)

Artists Helping Artists: Branding and Growing Your Art Business: Painting by Leslie Saeta "Branding and Growing Your Art Business" Scheduled Air Date: Thursday, January 19, 9:00 am PST, 12:00 noon EST...

Women are from Venus

This painting was a commissioned piece with a brief that it had to be a Landscape but out of  this world and needed to be pink and purple. I decided to do the work in my usual medium and used Winsor & Newton Artists Oils. I completed this in several stages.

Women are from Venus - Oil on Canvas 22" x 18"

Old Wooden Door

This is an old painting done when I was experimenting with Watercolour. I read an article of the "The Artist" magazine by Terry Harrison and decided to give it a go, I was working in oils at the time and had never used Watercolour. I must admit I do not paint often in Watercolour as yet.

I guess this page will feature my art

There comes a time in ones life where technology gets a grip of you and you either have to ride the flow of the tide or get swept away by it, so here goes, my artistic life will now be displayed for all of you to see warts and all.

I decided to plot my artistic journey, from sketches, planning, preparation paintings and masterpieces, expect to see it all the good the bad and the ugly with the odd ramble thrown in for good measure. I am working on developing a series of plein air paintings of Cornwall and I am toying with the idea of an engineering theme also at the moment, seen as I work full time for First Great Western Trains as a Mechanical/Electrical Engineer, expect to see trains.

I am also an avid photographer and I am looking to expand my photography portfolio into a business acumen so again watch this space.

Feel free to comment.

You can contact me Enchanted Art Studio